Azad Essa

ATTENTION: it’s okay for you to enjoy the capitalist, imperialist, heteronormative, misogynistic, homophobic and racist spectacle that is the World Cup. Or The Royal Wedding. Or books and films and music that pander to the capitalist…

Last weekend’s City Press exposé of what are clearly extra-judicial executions at Marikana was simply horrifying.
According to the testimony of one Constable Itumeleng Ntsileng, an officer with the police special task force present at…

Halimatou Souare smiles as we enter her modest home in the southern Senegalese city of Zingonchor. Known as "a pioneer for peace" in the restive region of Casamance, wrecked by years of conflict, the 68-year-old settles on a brown…

As far as trolls go, Arthur Lenk, Israel’s representative to Pretoria, was astutely ambassadorial. Mention Israel on Twitter and Ambassador would pop around to “celebrate” or “correct” the perception. He was a one-man PR stunt. True to his…

A very happy new year, dear readers! We're back at work and ready for a packed 2017 - and hopefully ready to get bigger, better, and more impactful than ever.
It goes without saying, 2016 was the worst thing since ever. And we felt it…

Our co-founder Khadija Patel has been appointed as Editor-in-Chief of the Mail & Guardian.
Patel takes up her new position on November 1.
The Mail & Guardian and The Daily Vox are currently in talks about a proposed…

The Daily Vox, at two years old, has been awarded a silver prize in WAN-IFRA’s World Young Reader Prize in the public service category “for helping young people provide a counter-narrative to what was being reported in many mainstream…

I don't think I have ever seen anything quite like it.
The little girl - now known to all as Zulaikha Patel - standing in front of a row of three white males, refusing to back down, calling on them to follow through with their threats to…

MS Dhoni taps a tame James Faulkner full toss to the wide long-on boundary and India record a famous victory. At the non-striker's end, Virat Kohli removes his helmet and drops to his knees in a spectacular sequence. It's Easter Sunday…

It’s “f***** malicious” to publish criticism of BDS-SA. Also, we must have a vendetta against Muhammad Desai - but likely not. If you’re confused, so were we. But that sums up the thread of responses we received when we asked BDS-SA to…

It is young people, in India, as in South Africa, who may be our last hope. As the fervour of revolt spreads, it is as if history has begun to take shape. And those who decry the apathy of youth should take note. In the ongoing collusion of…

The outrage over the #PennySparrow saga has been loud and clear. But between the outrage and the anger for the obvious bigotry towards the black body, have we forgotten that beyond the words, are ordinary people. SANDILE MLINGO VABAZO…

Within hours of Penny Sparrow posting a racist diatribe on Facebook bemoaning the dirty escapades of black people on a Durban beach, she has unwittingly inherited the mantle of public enemy No. 1, until now held by one Jacob Gedleyihlekisa …

A frustrated mom, Paula Chaplin probably didn't expect her Facebook post on the lack of diversity in Woolworths' toddlers' clothing to blow up like it did. But just over a day after Chaplin put up the post, it has been "liked" over 11,000…